Nigel Farage launches 'The Brexit Party' (12Apr19)

We shouldn’t be surprised when the political class and their activists undermine a voter referendum that doesn’t go their way. Referendums are used as foils: if it advances their agenda, well then, all is good. If it doesn’t, they’ll ignore it, and do as they damn well please.

This happened in Charlotte, NC. Local politicians and their cronies wanted a taxpayer-financed, basketball arena in the “uptown” area. They didn’t have the guts to approve it themselves, so they put it up for a vote. We citizens said, “screw you” and voted it down in referendum. What did these local politicians do? They flipped us the middle finger and saddled us with the bill. That’s how referendums work.

We have plenty of referendums that get passed. It’s the ones that liberals don’t like that get contested and overturned by activist judges. Or, like what’s happening with Brexit, the political class drag their feet, hoping their citizens will eventually become disinterested and forget.